ICID ANNUAL REPORT • 2010-11 ICID Awards
WatSave Awards 2010 ICID recognizes the outstanding water saving contributions in agriculture by individuals / team from all over the world by presenting awards on annual basis. The Watsave Awards are made in four categories viz., (1) Technology, (2) Innovative Water management, (3) Young Professionals, and (4) Farmer. The WatSave Awards 2010 were given to the following outstanding contributions as adjudged by the international panel of Judges.
Technology Award was presented for the contribution “Irrigation water security: promoting on-farm reservoirs in the UK” by Messrs Keith Weatherhead, Melvyn Kay, and Jerry Knox of the United Kingdom. Over the past four years these professionals have been actively encouraging farmers, agribusinesses, and water resource managers in the UK to rethink the role of on-farm reservoir storage as a key to their water resources strategies. It involves the use of storage to conserve surplus (winter) water for agricultural
use in summer droughts, saving summer water for other uses, including the environment. This was not a new technology, but its application by water professionals campaigning for farmers to invest in storage on their own land was worthy of award. The construction of on-farm reservoirs has provided the water security, essential to achieve timely production of high quality food that reduces wastage from field to plate.
Dr. Keith Weatherhead
Mr. Melvyn Kay
Dr. Jerry Knox
Innovative Water Management Award was presented for the contribution “Water distribution management at Valhartswater” made by Kobus Harbron (South Africa). The Vaalharts irrigation scheme is situated at the confluence of the Harts and Vaal rivers on the border between North West and the Northern Cape provinces and is the largest irrigation scheme in South
Mr. Kobus Harbron
Africa. Dating from the 1930s it serves 29,181 ha through around 1900 abstraction points. Computerization of the already well- developed manual water administration system using digitized and electronically imported flow data saved 17.5 million m3 of water in a single year. This saving is sufficient to irrigate 74 additional farms of 25.7 ha in size. With the implementation of the Water Administration System (WAS), ‘Vaalharts Water’ managed to decrease the losses from 32% to 26.7% and this saving, representing 5% of losses, is sustainable and capable of further improvement and expansion to another scheme.
Best paper Award 2010
The Best Paper Award 2010 was presented to Messrs W. Ghazouani (France), S. Marlet (France), Mekki (Tunisia) and A. Vidal (France) in recognition of their outstanding paper titled “Farmers’ perceptions and engineering approach in the modernization of a community- managed irrigation scheme: A case study from an oasis of the Nefzawa (South of Tunisia)” published in Volume 58, Issue S 3 of Irrigation and Drainage – The Journal of ICID. The award comprises a citation plaque and Gift Books from M/s. Wiley-Blackwell (UK), the publisher of the Journal.
VPH Vidal receiving Best Paper Award
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